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«Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.»
«What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?»
«Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| Keywords:
cog, cogs, corruption, governs, machine, prejudice, The Machine
«We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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Thinking
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becoming, created, machine, servants, serve, The Machine
«The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.»
«Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.»
Author: William Strunk, Jr.
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concise, contain, drawing, draw a line, draw the line, lines, machine, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, sentence, sentences, unnecessary, vigorous
«We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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deadlier, gun, in the long run, long run, machine, machine gun, The Long Run, The Machine, tinned, tins
«The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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conclusion, dared, draw, machine, premise, premised, premises, press, railway, railways, telegraph, The Machine, the press, The Telegraph
«When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.»
«The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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annoying, machine, piano, relation, sister, The Piano, typewriting, typewritten
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